I KEEP HEARING SPEAKERS SAY THAT WE ARE A
"DEMOCRACY". WE ARE NOT A DEMOCRACY!!
WE ARE A REPUBLIC!! BELOW IS A GOOD
EXPLANATION. PLEASE SEND IT TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW...........
MAYBE WE CAN GET THIS DEFINITION
CORRECT. WE BETTER, WE DON'T WANT A
DEMOCRACY.
Thank you,
Dennis Hodges
St. Louis,MO
"Today the path to total dictatorship in the United States can
be laid by strictly legal means, unseen and unheard by the Congress, the
President, or the people....outwardly we have a Constitutional government. We
have operating within our government and political system, another body
representing another form of government, a bureaucratic elite which believes our
Constitution is outmoded and is sure that it is the winning side.... All the
strange developments in the foreign policy agreements may be traced to this
group who are going to make us over to suit their pleasure.... This political
action group has its own local political support organizations, its own pressure
groups, its own vested interests, its foothold within our government, and its
own propaganda apparatus."
Senator William Jenner (1954)
DEFINITION and explanation: What is a Republic?
Look
up the word REPUBLIC in most any dictionary. Most likely, you"ll find that a
"republic" is a "government of elected representatives".
This is a
deliberate deception.
I have an Encyclopedia Britannica, 11th edition.
This work provides the proper explanation. First it says that the idea that a
republic is a government of elected representatives is a "notoriously modern
interpretation". The article continues, explaining that historically, a Republic
referred to a government in which the sovereign held authority granted by the
people and ruled according to law.
Note that this concept checks exactly
with our own Declaration of Independence which states that the purpose of
government is to protect the rights of the people, and that government derives
its just powers from the consent of the people.
You now have the key
ideas in hand: First, power is derived from the people, and second the
government itself operates within and under the control of the law. In other
words: In a REPUBLIC the People are the Masters and the government is
subordinate.
When the Founding Fathers set our Constitution for us they
based their work on this concept. The Constitution is a grant of authority from
We the People to form a government. The government thus authorized is a LIMITED
government, operating on authority granted from We the People. In every sense it
meets the earlier, historical definition of a Republic.
The Constitution
is the grant of authority for the government. The Constitution, then, is the Law
of the People for the control of the Government.
You will hear many
people say that we are a "democracy". Such was NOT the original intention. In a
democracy, the will of the majority is law. Anything is allowed, provided that
the majority approves. There are no checks and balances, and the rights of the
individual are not protected.
Allow me two quotations on the subject:
James Madison, Federalist Paper
10:
"Hence it is that such democracies have ever been spectacles of
turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal
security or the rights of property; and have in general been as short in their
lives as they have been violent in their deaths."
U.S. Army Training
Manual TM2000-05, 1928
Democracy, n. "A government
of the masses. Authority derived through mass meeting or any form of "direct"
expression. Results in mobocracy. Attitude toward property is communistic -
negating property rights. Attitude toward law is that the will of the majority
shall regulate, whether it be based upon deliberation or governed by passion,
prejudice, and impulse, without restraint or regard to consequences. Results in
demagogism, license, agitation, discontent, anarchy."
Our
Constitutional fathers, familiar with the strength and weakness of both
autocracy and democracy, with fixed principles definitely in mind, defined a
representative republican form of government. They made a very marked
distinction between a republic and democracy ... and said repeatedly and
emphatically that they had created a republic.
Seek the Truth, and the
Truth will make you free!
�Pastor
Mike Acker
http://www.wealth4freedom.com/Republic.html
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